Weekly Neuroscience Brownbag Talks
Mark your calendars and come join us for this semester's NSC Brownbag Series. All presentations will be held in AD 2.204 from 1:00-2:00pm, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments provided.
2010-2011
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sep 3, 2010 | Jayme McReynolds | Mysteries of the Medial Pefrontal Cortex |
| Sep 10 | Jon Ploski, PhD | How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem |
| Sep 17 | Michael Kilgard, PhD | The Science of Scientific Writing |
| Sep 24 | Kamalini Ranasinghe | Neural and Behavioral Discrimination of Speech Like Sounds with Spectral Degradation |
| Oct 1 | David Pena | Effect of Environmental Enrichment on Memory and Histone Acetylation |
| Oct 8 GR 4.301 |
James McGaugh, PhD | A Look Back at Transformative Research Discoveries in the Last 50 Years |
| Oct 15 | Meharvan Singh, PhD | Neuroprotective Effects of Progesterone: Implications for Hormone Therapy and Alzheimer's Disease |
| Oct 22 | Robert Sapolsky, PhD | How to Give an Engaging Lecture or Presentation |
| Oct 29 | Kyle Donowho | Using Synaptoneurosomes to Study Stress Effects on Synaptic Plasticity |
| Nov 5 | Society for Neuroscience Presentations | |
| Nov 12 | SFN Meeting - No brownbag | |
| Nov 19 | Clay Brown | First Year Project Presentation: Nicotinic Modulation of Auditory Attentional Shift in the Rat |
| Dec 3 | Eric Lovitz | First Year Project Presentation: Changes in Hippocampal Place Cell Activity of Conditional Cdk5 Knockout Mice that Enhance Spatial Specificity |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Dwight German, PhD | Modeling Parkinson's Disease in the Rat, and Diagnosing the Human Disease from Blood |
| Jan 21 | Kyle Donowho | Effect of Arousal on Catalepsy in Rats: Examining Mechanisms of Paradoxical Kinesia in Parkinson's Disease |
| Jan 28 | Van Miller, PhD | Career Choices in Neuroscience: Considering the Alternatives |
| Feb 4 | David Pena | Pairing Vagus Nerve Stimulation with Conditioned Stimulus Exposure Enhances the Extinction of Conditioned Fear |
| Feb 11 12:30-1:30pm JO 4.614 |
Paul Churchland, PhD | You Are Already Cognitively Enhanced, But There Might Be Room for More |
| Feb 18 | Sven Kroener, PhD | The Effects of Drugs of Abuse on Synaptic Plasticity in the Prefrontal Cortex |
| Feb 25 | Open | |
| Mar 4 | Open | |
| Mar 11 | Open | |
| Mar 18 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 25 | Mick Rugg, PhD | Hippocampal Memory Signals: Evidence from fMRI |
| Apr 1 | Will Rosellini, PhD | Voltage Controlled Capacitive Discharge for Selective Nerve Fiber Activation |
| Apr 8 | Francesca Filbey, PhD | Correlates of Reward Processes in Substance Abusers |
| Apr 15 | Jon Ploski, PhD | Molecular Mechanisms of Fear Learning |
| Apr 22 | Tracy Rosen, PhD | Robust Cortical Responses to and Behavioral Discrimination of Compressed Speech by Rats |
| Apr 25 3:00-4:00pm |
Jay Blundon, PhD | Unmasking Plasticity at Mature Thalamocortical Synapses of the Auditory Cortex |
| Apr 29 | Kimberly Huber, PhD | Mechanisms of Translation-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: Implications for Cognitive Disorders and Autism |
